Journal article
Why managers should be more like hackers
- Abstract:
- Hackers are systems thinkers; they have an attitude that allows them to identify opportunities to make outsized impacts creatively, quickly, and resourcefully. Managers could benefit from thinking more like hackers. Hacking helps us take a step back from the worn-out management tenets of efficiency, long-term planning, hierarchical decision-making, and full information, to adopt instead more adaptable strategies. Adopting a hacker attitude can help managers work around obstacles, find opportunities across siloes, cultivate a culture of pragmatism, mobilize staff around processes instead of end goals, and navigate situations in which there isn’t an obvious answer or clear choice.
- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Reviewed (other)
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- Publication website:
- https://hbr.org/2023/04/why-managers-should-think-more-like-hackers
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- Publisher:
- Harvard Business School Publishing
- Journal:
- Harvard Business Review More from this journal
- Volume:
- 2023
- Publication date:
- 2023-04-06
- Acceptance date:
- 2023-04-05
- ISSN:
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0017-8012
- Language:
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English
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- Pubs id:
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1339857
- Local pid:
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pubs:1339857
- Deposit date:
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2023-05-05
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- Harvard Business School Publishing
- Copyright date:
- 2023
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- © 2023 Harvard Business School Publishing. All rights reserved.
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